Presidents House Vote

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Ulysses Grant 20.6% 228
Grover Cleveland 21.6% 200
Calvin Coolidge 20.8% 54
Martin Van Buren 12.6% 49
Others 24.4% 0

In one of the strangest elections in U.S. History, nine former U.S. Presidents faced off against each other for the right to reclaim the office. While Ulysses Grant won the Republican nomination, many Half-Breeds and Mugwumps opted for alternative options, such as Chester Arthur (who, ironically, was a Stalwart and supported Grant) and Rutherford Hayes. While Grover Cleveland won the Democratic nomination, Martin Van Buren mounted a third-party candidacy under the anachronistic Free Soil Party. Western Populists and Progressives, frustrated by the nomination of two defenders of the gold standard, instead opted en masse for Calvin Coolidge and to a lesser extent Warren Harding, hoping they would govern more in line with their earlier beliefs than the conservatism of their Presidencies. Some Whigs ran as well, but failed to get significant support.

While the popular vote was essentially tied between the top candidates, neither Grant nor Cleveland were able to obtain a majority in the Electoral College. This left the selection of the next President to the House of Representatives. However, Coolidge pulled out of the election and renounced Progressivism. However, Coolidge was too tacitern to endorse either of the two remaining candidates.

Can Grant's second comeback bid succeed? Will Cleveland win a third non-consecutive term? Find out in five days...

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Interesting map. Is it based on real life performances at all? That would seem to be the case.

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Interesting map. Is it based on real life performances at all? That would seem to be the case.

I took the average performance of each candidate and calibrated it to the forum poll as best I could using 1924 popular vote.

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Contingent House Election

Despite the large advantage that Republican candidates had over Democratic candidates in the general election, Cleveland easily prevailed over Grant in a huge upset, winning more state delegations by roughly a 2:1 margin. This could be attributed to low turnout in the contingent election, as presumably many congressmen who supported other candidates in the general election did not vote. Thus, Cleveland becomes the first President to serve three nonconsecutive terms, and Grant becomes the first President to unsuccessfully seek a nonconsecutive term twice.